If you spend as much time as I do watching shows about zombies, ghosts, and aliens, then you understand how thinking about dead people becomes a part of your normal train of thought.
I use the word “normal” in the loosest sense of the word.
What if dead people got on board with social media around the same time us live folks did? Did they have a version of MySpace that fizzled out?
I really don’t know anything about MySpace. I didn’t have an account. It took forever for me to look into Twitter and Facebook. I still don’t know what the fuck Instragram is. I think it’s where people post food pictures. And fuck Google+ and its stupid circles. I’m not learning that one. Or Ello. My Pinterest account is the equivalent of the junk drawer in my kitchen. I just keep pinning the same recipes over and over. And pictures of Norman Reedus. Okay, it’s nothing like the junk drawer in my kitchen. Although, I feel like I should check and make sure Norman Reedus isn’t in there.
It could happen! Shut up.
Anyway, here is how I imagine social media for the dead:
William H Bonney: Hey, Socrates. You gotta get on Face Boo, man. There’s this page about stupid shit breathers do.
Socrates: If I don’t see what is on Face Boo, does it really exist?
William H Bonney: You get on my last nerve, Socrates.
Socrates: Face Boo can teach you nothing. Face Boo can only make you think.
William H Bonney: You’re fucking up heaven, Socrates.
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Joan Of Ark: Hey, have you seen Abe Lincoln around?
John Wilkes Booth: Lol. I talked him into signing up for ghoulgle+ and now he’s stuck in one of Dante’s circles of hell. I love fucking with that dude.
George Washington: Meh, can’t say I’m sorry. He’s an attention whore.
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Anne Frank on Alternatwitter:
OMG OMG everyone has read my diary. Everyone. #thisblows
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Methuselah: In my day, we sat on clouds and listened to harp music and we liked it. What’s this “Sulfurgram” nonsense, anyway? It’s nothing but pictures of barbeque.
Annette Funicello: Don’t be such a square.
Methuselah: Take those stupid ears off. Seriously, Annette. You look ridiculous.
Annette Funicello: It’s called a brand, Methuselah. I have over 12 billion followers on my poltergripes channel.
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Chris Farley: You guys, H’ello is going to take off. I’ll send you an invite. I got to talk to Robert Johnson on there. You can totally talk to people who sold their souls at the crossroads on H’ello.
Shakespeare: Hell is empty and all the demons are here.
Chris Farley: You don’t even have a rapturechat account, Shakespeare. I was talking to Eli Whitney and Robert E Lee.
Shakespeare: Get thee to a nunnery!
Chris Farley: Yeah? You get thee to a nunnery, Shakespeare. The nunnery down by the river.
Shakespeare: That one is getting old, Chris.
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Andrew Carnegie: Haha. William Randolph Hearst listed “sledding” as one of his skills on LinkedInferno.
Mae West: I never use LinkedInferno. It’s boring.
Andrew Carnegie: Maybe if you spent less time posting cleavage shots on Face Boo.
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Mr. Ed: Well, Catherine…
Catherine The Great: Just no. I can’t even.
Mr. Ed: I just want to be friends.
Catherine The Great: I don’t care what you read on Redrumit. That story is bullshit.
Mr. Ed: Do you do butt stuff?
Catherine The Great: *Block*
This is great and soooo clever!
Thank you! I don’t usually find what I find particularly funny, but I like this one. Randy thought it was so so. Go figure.
I’d love to crawl inside your head to see exactly how you think. This is hysterical! Have you thought of taking this to stand-up?
My brain can be a scary place. haha.
I have not considered it…I think I would bomb. But I really enjoyed performing in Listen To Your Mother. I was so much more confident than I thought I would be.
Thank you! 🙂
My two co-workers who are the only ones here are now upset with me for making so much noise laughing, but it was worth it. So, so very worth it.
Now I’m imagining that Mark Twain has mined that whole “Rumors of my death…” joke to…well, to death, and Emily Dickinson is pissed about college kids singing her poems to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
HAHHAHA…Yeah..this shit could go on and on, couldn’t it? And thank you…this makes my goddamn morning. 🙂
You are awesome.
You were all caught up in my spam folder. Sorry about that. I dusted you off. It’s scary in there.
Favs:
You’re fucking up heaven, Socrates.
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That one is getting old, Chris.
#Genius
Haha! I liked those too! and I usually am not impressed with my own damn self.
Love it…
Thank you!!!
with all the wrong attribution of quotes on the interwebbities I could see most of these conversations being turned into memes and then pinned by all the not so dead!
Hahah..I am on board with that. 🙂
How DO you do it, Michelle? This is brilliant. Love it. 🙂
Hmmm…I just try to NOT dismiss thoughts I have as silly..write them down…and hope they work. Haha.
Hahaha! Michelle, this is brilliant. Of course Mae West was posting cleavage pic on Faceboo! And she’s boredwith LinkedInferno. Loved this!!
Thank you! I was afraid I finally got too silly. haha.
This is great! Can’t help but think of others that might be giving the thumbs up “Like” on one another’s posts. You’ve left me thinking about that today. That’s why l’m wanting to share my admiration for your fun and imaginative blogging style. As a rookie blogger, I’ve learned and found connection with others and you’re someone I support, so I thought you might want to participate in an award I nominated you for – the info is on my post here. http://www.asquareofchocolate.com/2015/09/sharing-admiration-blogger-recognition.html
OMG thank you SO MUCH! How sweet to think of me. I appreciate it so much. 🙂
I love the sledding remark, that’s awesome.
Rosebud
Thank you! I was hoping it wasn’t too obscure.
So funny. Glad I stopped by.
Thank you so much!! I’m glad you did, too!!
A playwright friend wrote a play on this topic … it certainly is a subject whose time has come !! LOL
THAT is so cool! I bet it’s hilarious!
Shakespeare and Chris Farley? Now that’s a match made in heaven. Or is the the other place . . .?
Perhaps we should settle on Purgatory.
So bloody funny tears rolling down from laughing !! I can hear it now radio 1 your own talk show and I pressed liked on some button I think ?? Love it !!!
Haha…THANK YOU!!
Brilliant! Really made me laugh which is no mean feat at the moment!
YAY!!! Then I feel I have contributed to life today. 🙂
My idea of heaven is NO social media — that shit is exhausting! Of course, since we’ll all be able to communicate telepathically in heaven (or so I imagine) everyone will still know what everyone else is thinking and doing. I just can’t escape it!
Just relax and accept it. Soooooo much easier.
Ha ha! Love this 🙂
Thank you!!!
Imagining the back and forth on Alternatwitter between Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker…
Oh, I know. I didn’t want to stop…there are just so many people to choose from.
This is great! Love the creativity, but the humor really rocks. Good on ya!
Thank you!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha, this is brilliant. I wish social media was that interesting.
As for Instagram, I am on there, don’t use it much but it’s mainly arty photos, artwork and you can post 15 second video clips. It has a use but finding the time to utilise it properly is another matter!
I actually think you could expand this as a regular thing as the possibilities are endless.
Right? And it was REALLY fun to write.
Holy crap, this was awesome!! I love how your brain works. 🙂
Not gonna lie…it’s usually exhausting
Now I can’t help envisioning Chris Farley with tiny white angel wings.
“Tommy want wingies”
https://youtu.be/xUA2EzzWAC4?t=3m17s
HAHAHAAH
PMSL – this is excellent !!!!
thank you!!!